Dr. Ralph H. Wolfe Viewing Center

Call Number: VHS01510

by: Moe Howard; Larry Fine; Shemp Howard; Vernon Dent; Mary Ainslee; Jules White; Felix Adler; Jack White; Fayte Browne; Three Stooges (Comedy team); Columbia Pictures Corporation.; Columbia TriStar Home Video (Firm)

Format: VHS

Language: English

Publisher:  Burbank, Calif. : Columbia TriStar Home Video, 1996.

Notes: Running Time: 48 min.

Summary: Three comedies starring the Three Stooges. In “Corny Casanovas,” the Stooges all romance the same gold-digging gal with the same hilarious results; in “A missed fortune, ” Shemp wins $50,000 in a radio contest and three larcenous lovlies try to swindle the trio out of their rapidly dwindling fortune; in “He cooked his goose, ” all’s fair, and funny, in love and war when ladies’ man Larry is caught cheating with both Moe’s wife and Shemp’s fiancee.

OCLC#36654431

Added: October19, 2011

Call Number: VHS01509

by: Jean Doumanian; Woody Allen; Tony Darrow; Hugh Grant; George Grizzard; Jon Lovitz; Elaine May; Michael Rapaport; Elaine Stritch; Tracey Ullman; Zhao Fei; Alisa Lepselter; Suzanne McCabe; Santo Loquasto; Dreamworks Pictures.; Sweetland Films.; DreamWorks Home Entertainment (Firm

Format: VHS

Language: English

Publisher:  Universal City, CA : DreamWorks Home Entertainment, ©2000.

Notes: Running Time: 95 min.

Summary: Ray is an ex-convict who is married to Frenchy, a former stripper. Ray concocts a scheme to rob a bank by digging a tunnel from a defunct pizza place next door. As a cover, Frenchy opens a cookie shop in the storefront while Ray digs in the back. Ray’s burglary is a failure, but Frenchy’s cookies are a rousing success, and within a year the store has spawned a nationwide franchise that makes both rich. However, while Ray wants to move to Miami and bask in the sun, nouveau riche Frenchy now aspires to join high society, with posh art dealer David as her guide.

OCLC #: 45608536

Added: October19, 2011

An Italian count, seeking to prove that social position is a matter of luck, sends a struggling nightclub singer to a luxury resort to masquerade as a wealthy lady.

Call Number: VHS01505

by:  Wesley Ruggles; Mae West; Cary Grant; Kent Taylor; Paramount Pictures.; MCA Home Video (Firm);

Format: VHS

Language: English

Publisher: Universal City, Calif. : MCA Home Video, ©1993, 1933.

Notes:Includes original theatrical trailer.
Hi-fi ; Dolby processed. Videocassette release of the 1933 motion picture. Running Time: 88 min.

Summary: The story begins with the bewitching Tira (West), who, in addition to circus acts, performs some shady business maneuvers and takes a job as a lion tamer to escape jail. After her first show at Madison Square Garden catapults Tira to stardom, she attracts the attention of wealthy but engaged Kirk Lawrence (Kent Taylor). But Kirk’s handsome business partner Jack Clayton (Cary Grant) blows his friend’s cover and begins a romance with Tira. This time Tira is in love for real and is devastated when a misunderstanding causes Jack to break off the affair. Serving as her own counsel, Tira sues Jack for breach of contract and takes him through a cross-examination he’ll never forget!

OCLC #:28640040

Added: October16, 2011

  This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection

Call Number: VHS01498

by: William Shakespeare; Joe Redner; Christopher Dunne

Format: VHS

Language: English

Publisher: Burbank, CA : Miramax, 2003?.

Notes: Color. 100 min. R. In Italian with English subtitles. Starring Nanni Moretti and Laura Morante.

Summary:  A psychoanalyst and his family are devastated by the sudden death of the teenage son. 

OCLC #: 704501747

Added: October 14,2011

Call Number: VHS01497

by: William Shakespeare; Joe Redner; Christopher Dunne

Format: VHS

Language: English

Publisher: [USA] : [Joe Redner], 2000.

Notes: Running Time: 147 minutes 

Summary: None 

OCLC #: 610637778

Added: October 14,2011

Call Number: VHS01496

by: Natalie Wood; Rosalind Russell; Karl Malden; Jerome Robbins; Jule Styne; Arthur Laurents; Stephen Sondheim; Mervyn LeRoy 

Format: VHS

Language: English

Publisher: Burbank, CA : Warner Home Video, 1990, ©1962

Notes: Based on the play “Gypsy”. Running Time: 143 minutes
Summary: After years of toiling in the background, a young woman finally grabs center stage and shoots to the top, in the world of burlesque.

OCLC #: 82744978

Added: October 14,2011

Call Number: DVD00901

by: King Vidor; Wanda Tuchock; Daniel L Haynes; Nina Mae McKinney; William Fountaine; Harry Gray; Fanny Belle DeKnight; Irving Berlin; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.; Turner Entertainment Co.; Warner Home Video (Firm);

Format: DVD

Language: English

Publisher: [United States] : Turner Entertainment ; Burbank, CA : Distributed by Warner Home Video, [2006]

Notes: 1 videodisc (total running time: 100 min.) Originally released as a motion picture in 1929. Dual-layer format. Special features: commentary by Black Cultural Scholars Donald Bogle and Avery Clayton ; 2 vintage musical shorts featuring the Nicholas Brothers and Hallelujah co-star Nina Mae McKinney: Pie, pie blackbird featuring Eubie Blake and band and The black network ; theatrical trailer. Nominated for one Oscar.

Summary:  Infused with spirituals, folk songs, blues, and jazz, Hallelujah follows the fortunes of Zeke, a poor cotton farmer. Love, loss, passion, redemption, make this cinematic milestone the first all-black feature from a major studio.

OCLC #: 62764687

Added: October 13, 2011

Call Number: DVD 01030

by: Frank Capra; Harry Cohn; Elmer Harris; Johnnie Walker; Bessie Love; Ernest Hilliard; Lionel Belmore; David Mir; Robert Lord; Ernest Pagano; Columbia Pictures Corporation.; Columbia TriStar Home Video (Firm);

Format: DVD

Language: English

Publisher: Culver City, Calif : Columbia TriStar Home Video, 1999.

Notes: 1 videodisc (total running time: 56 min.) Special features: Scene selections, silent film with newly reocrded stereo score. From the story “Come back to Aaron” by Robert Lord and Ernest S. Pagano. Originally released as a silent motion picture in 1928. Features exclusive feature-length documentary: Frank Capra’s American Dream.

Summary:  When Ginger Bolivar’s amateur stock company is invited to join superstar Don Wilson’s Broadway review, little does she know that recently hired bit-part actor Harry Mann and Don are one and the same. Don believes the Bolivar Players are unintentionally funny, and has brought them to the Big Apple as a comedy act. But when “Harry” falls for Ginger, Don soon learns that humiliating the woman he loves is no laughing matter.

OCLC #: 56698203

Added: October 13, 2011

Call Number: DVD00711

by: Norman Taurog; Mitchell Leisen; Walter Lang; William K Howard; Wesley Ruggles; Carole Lombard; William Powell; Wynne Gibson; Richard Wallace; Edward Goodman; Herman J Mankiewicz; Victor Milner; Herman Hand; Universal Pictures (Firm);

Format: DVD

Language: English

Publisher: Universal City, Calif. : Universal Pictures, ©2006.

Notes: 2 videodiscs (total running time: 460 min.) Title from container. “Man of the world” originally released as a motion picture in 1931; “We’re not dressing” originally released as a motion picture in 1934; “Hands across the table” originally released as a motion picture in 1935; “Love before breakfast” originally released as a motion picture in 1936; “The princess comes across” originally released as a motion picture in 1936; “True confession” originally released as a motion picture in 1937.

Summary:  “Man of the world”: A young American girl visits Paris accompanied by her fiancee and her wealthy uncle. “We’re not dressing”: Beautiful high society type Doris Worthington is entertaining guests on her yacht in the Pacific when it hits a reef and sinks. “Hands across the table”: A loafer and a manicurist, both planning to marry money, meet and form an uneasy alliance. “Love before breakfast”: Kay bounces between boyfriend Bill and a Wall Street tycoon who thinks he knows what’s best for her and bosses her around. “The princess comes across”: A woman pretends to be royalty in order to get aboard a crusie ship. “True confession”: Helen and Ken are a pretty strange copule – she is a pathological liar, and he is a scrupulously honest lawyer.

OCLC #: 65185293

Added: October 13, 2011

Call Number: DVD00763

by: John Schlesinger; Jerome Hellman; Waldo Salt; Karen Black; Burgess Meredith; Donald Sutherland; William Atherton; Richard Dysart; Nathanael West; Paramount Pictures Corporation.; Long Road Productions.;

Format: DVD

Language: English

Publisher: Hollywood, Calif. : Paramount Pictures, [2004]

Notes: 1 videodisc (total running time: 144 min.) Originally produced as a motion picture in 1975. Based on the novel by Nathanael West. Nominated for two Oscars and two Golden Globes.

Summary: A naive young set designer seeks work in Tinseltown and falls in love with a wannabe actress who lives with her alcoholic father, a former vaudevillian entertainer.

OCLC #: 55232638

Added: October 13, 2011